The saying is one that I heard about 20 years ago, I had it written on the back of a business card and blue tacked to the wall above my phone for many years and it helped me over many a hump in life….Here I dedicate it to my daughter for some fears she has faced and overcome.

I didn’t do very many of these Eyelet Buttonhole flowers, I love how they look but I realy do not enjoy doing Bullion stitch…On the few I did do I tested out different thread types…The dark pink flower is a fine silk thread, the light pink flower is a soft cotton pearl twist thread, the gold flower is a Rayon Pearl twist thread.

On My Box top I did a cluster of 3 eyelet buttonhole flowers and finished them with detached chain stitch leaves.

or Easter I used the knotted buttonhole stitch as a needle weaving fill to make a basket….I cut the eggs from a CD, drilled holes near the bottom to stitch them on below the line of the basket and painted them with acrylic paint.